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Published: October 21, 2026 05:13
Today, I take a break from your regularly-scheduled AI mathocalypse programming to urge my American readers to vote in the Congressional midterms, early if possible, if you haven’t already. Especially if your state faces one or more major contests, as does…
AI Alignment Theory Course: Readings and Rapporteur Reports!
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Published: October 19, 2026 21:07
As I announced on this blog a couple weeks ago, I’m teaching a new course this semester at UT Austin, entitled AI Alignment Theory. To call such a course “timely” seems like an understatement; this is the first course I’ve ever taught for which multiple…
Podcasts about the Topic
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Published: October 13, 2026 20:26
“The Topic” being, of course, the Mathocalypse, except sometimes with AI alignment and even quantum computing and complexity theory and other stuff thrown in. With Ryan Peterman: Notably, near the end of the above podcast, you can watch my live…
The Mathocalypse
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Published: October 7, 2026 18:57
Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on for your whole career! OOF!” While my son was being a brat, he…
My new course at UT Austin: AI Alignment Theory
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Published: October 4, 2026 22:13
This semester, I’ve been teaching a brand-new course, entitled CS395T AI Alignment Theory. Here’s the course description: The astounding progress of AI over the past decade has been accompanied by a rising fear: do we really understand how to align and…
My "Knowmads” podcast on science and AI
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Published: September 29, 2026 02:06
Or click here if the above doesn’t work. Recorded in-person in my office at UT Austin, with a bulleted list containing “ARC,” “Scalable Oversight,” and “Models” behind me on my blackboard for some reason (I no longer remember who put those there or…
Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post
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Published: September 19, 2026 22:34
Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below about how theoretical computer science (and in particlar, the STOC/FOCS/SODA conferences) should…
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
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Published: September 15, 2026 17:09
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, many of us would say things like: Look, the part of the…
9/11 in Berkeley
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Published: September 11, 2026 17:04
Note: Of course I’ve been glued all week to the dramatic developments in AI. I’m working on a post about them. I’m not good at reacting to things in a timely way. So today, I’ll do my post marking the tragedy a quarter-century ago that we all commemorate.…
LLMs and self-referentiality
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Published: September 1, 2026 17:17
I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when young was that the secret of intelligence (and therefore,…